03 a Trilogy 2

Dominici | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Inside Out U.S.
• ASIN: B000MEYHTE
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,525 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Kick-ass prog metal disc by former DREAM THEATER singer, Charlie Dominici.INSIDE OUT RECORDS 2007

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Progressive Metal Album, March 15, 2007

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B. Lowrey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 03 a Trilogy 2 (Audio CD)

Having been a fan of the When Dream and Day Unite era of Dream Theater, when I learned vocalist Charlie Dominici was making another progressive metal album, I had to hear it.

Pros: The album does not disappoint; There are some great tracks on here, great musicianship, and an interesting story behind it all.

Cons: The band's influences can be quite apparent at times. A lot of the tracks sound like a carbon copy of Dream Theater's style. Dominici's lyrics are often a hit or miss.

A good album but not without its flaws. I am greatly interested in to see future albums that this band puts out to see if they grow with more experience.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb progressive metal album, March 28, 2008

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J. Pearson (Bothell, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 03 a Trilogy 2 (Audio CD)

Murat Batmaz has already written an excellent review of the music in detail. As a Dream Theater fan since the Images & Words album, I was expecting a cheap knockoff of DT but was very pleasantly suprised that the songwriting was as good as the first 3 DT albums, maybe even a little bit better. The sound is very much in an early Dream Theater or Symphony X mode. In my opinion, this is the best Dream Theater album in 14 years, mainly because the songs are so well crafted as opposed to the long instrumental excursions the band has favored the past several albums. If you love early Dream Theater (when they were at their most melodic), you will love this album.

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome! A Great Contribution to Prog Metal, May 23, 2011

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DurgaDas "Yogi for Peace" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: O3 A Trilogy - Part 2 (MP3 Download)

I'd like to serve as a voice against those who mention DT in their reviews for this album as being too derivative of them specifically (and I read several that say so, not just on Amazon.com). That's just off... and for several reasons. All prog metal bands are standing on the shoulders of giants, and who is to say that DT is the only band allowed to stand on those same shoulders? The shadows cast there are quite long indeed.

In any case, since losing Kevin Moore, the emotional impact of DT's albums has tanked, while their playing has gotten better if anything, but the arranging part has suffered, IMO, with a few exceptions, especially given their reputations as flag-bearers. (Yes Mike, I know you wrote a whole song for people who parse out your best efforts like I am doing now, but it IS a review) Except for Charlie himself, this band's musicians are largely unheralded to this reviewer, which makes this album even more impressive.

For the purposes of this review, I will compare Dominici favorably to DT, rather than the other way around. It disturbs me that one band has come to dominate the dialogue on prog metal these days. MANY other bands are as good or better than DT: Vanden Plas, Wolverine, Sun Caged, Lemur Voice, Atomship (my current favorite), and in this case Dominici; no matter how much similarity they might have to the most popular band in the genre.

DT is a little too "classical music" and "in the head" these days with the influence of their new virtuoso keyboard player, where virtuosity is the whole meal. With DT now, the music's a little too "on the beat" in general, whereas this awesome Dominic album I can actually feel the feelings of the character involved, and understand the story (take that, Scenes From A Memory and Octavarium, still scratching my head to follow along the story of those, even after looking it up), even grasping many of the emotions & motivations of the main character, determined to bring about the end of the world and the flawed detective determined to stop him.

This is a much better tribute to the Twin Towers tragedy than the trite "Sacrificed Sons". It seems to focus on the-personal-related-to-the-global in a way Dream Theater often misses since Kevin Moore's departure.

If there is something grating that might be said about this album, one could say the same thing about the great Queen, Pink Floyd or Styx: it's VERY theatrical, and I could easily see it played out in a play on Broadway.

Some people just don't like voiceovers to advance a story, but I can't say the same thing about my own taste. I LOVE all the detailed noises in the detective's precinct office- the coughing, footsteps, the exaggerated New York accent ("you look like hell!"), everything!

Still, the three bands I am comparing them too are among the greatest of all time, so this comparison better serves the quality of the album than comparing them to DT. Plenty of room on those shoulders, even if we don't mention Genesis, Yes, and ELP, all of whom Dominici and every prog metal outfit has to thank.

Having said all of these preconditions- this album freaking ROCKS. HUGE and original metal riffs bounce around this album in the best possible way. Arrangement and musicianship are of the highest quality, from drumming, bass and guitar.

Now, as I said, I've not heard of a single one of them, but this is even more impressive to me, and I hope they have great success in this band. Frankly, the guy singing is, if anything, the weakest link here, as Charlie's voice never was as highly ranged and emotive as, say, John Arch or Geoff Tate.

It's an absolute metal tour de force, with nice variations on many of what we've come to expect at the high-end of technical instrument ability in the prog metal world. While not as musical as say, Marcel Coenen, but then again, NO ONE- even John Petrucci- is THAT good. Marcel's in a class by himself- both SUPER musical and SUPER virtuosic.

They have their own unique and awesome voice and it's clearly serving both the story and the genre they are cast into. Well done lads!